Hinge



(No Model.)

W. ANDREW.

HINGE.

Patented Dec. 25

' in juxtaposition to the other.

'NITED STATES Parent rricE.

\VILLIAM ANDREW, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

HINGE.'

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Iatent No. 395,196, dated December25, 1888.

Application filed February 20, 1888' Serial N0. 264,628. (N0 model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, IVILLIAM ANDREW, a citizen of the United States,residing at Oineinnati, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio,have invented acertain new and useful Improvement in Hinges, of whichthe following is a specification.

My invention relates more particularly to hinges adapted for applicationto such articles as clothes-horses, where the parts composing the framecan be reversely folded together or collapsed either partially or whollyin a right or left direction. These hinges can also be applied toscreen-doors which are to swing open either from the inside or outside.

The features of my invention will be understood from the descriptionhereinafter given and by reference to the accompanying drawings, formingpart of my application, in which Figure 1 is an elevation showing myhingeopen and attached to the legs of a clotheshorse, the upper portionof the legs only being shown, that part will suiiicientlyillustrate whatis intended. Fig. 2 is an elevation showing thehinge in its closedposition. Fig. 3 is a top view of Fig. 1. Fig. -l is a top view of Fig.2, the dotted lines to the right repre senting the position assumed bythe parts when one of them is swung clear around and Fig. 5 is acrosssection taken through the line a: :1 Fig. 1, assuming the parts tobe partially swung aroundthat is, the connecting barrel or link beingstopped by a lug for that purpose on the attaehingplate, but thethemselves not being contiguous to each other.

My hinge is composed of attaching-plates A .15, which are provided withtop and bottom lugs or cars, C 1'). Between these lugs and the plates AB fits a conneeting-link or barreled piece, E, which is held in positionby means of pins p, passed through them and the lugs C D, as shown.These pins may be secured in any suitable manner, as by being screwedinto the lower lugs, as indicated in the drawings.

Z l are lugs on each side of both the attaching-plates A ll. Said lugsact as stops to hold the link E and prevent its assuming a deflectingattitui'le after a certain point has been reached. It will be observedthat the sides of link E are barreled or raised, thus leaving theintermediate portion shallow.

The lugs Z correspond in height to the rises indicated, so that when thelink is brought into juxtaposition with the said lugs further progressof the link is arrested, and it will occupy a position parallel with theflat surfaces of the attaching-plates A or B, according to which of thetwo it is thrown against. These are the features of my hinge, which, as

a whole, can be attached to the door and doorcasing or the rails formingthe legs of a clothes-horse, as the case may be, by fastening theplatesA B thereto by means of screws or nails, as indicated in thedrawings, the letters S T representing the legs of the clotheshorse,while it show the fastening-screws.

Now, then, the hinge being attached as shown, and being in the positionindicated by Fig. 1, should it be desired .to fold or collapse parts ST, one of them, as T, is turned till the link E strikes the lugs Z, asseen in Fig. 5. Then said leg T, being loosely joined to the link, canbe turned so as to be brought contiguous to leg S, as seen in Figs. 2and 4-, and the end accomplished. can be turned so as to occupy aposition reversed trom that which it formerly held, as indicated by thedotted lines in Fig. i. 7 There it will be seen that the leg S, asindicated by the solid lines, may be turned over to the opposite side,as shown by the dotted lines, or the action may be vice versa.

I am aware of the existence of hinges as patented to Pfauntz and FrankApril 4, 1882, and .I. A. Ludlow August 16, 1887.. These I do not claim;but

\Vhat I do claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A reversible hinge consisting of attachingplates A B, provided withplain perforated ears 0 D, separated from each other, and arresting-lugsl, in con'ibination with link E, which occupies a position betweenplates A B and ears 0 D, and whose sides are perforated for thereception of retaining pins p, the exteriors of the perforated portionsbeing raised above the middle of the plate a proportionate distance,substantially as shown and described, and for the purposes noted.

WILLIAM ANDREWV.

XVitn esses:

, W. ELLwooD WYNNE,

JOHN S. ANDREW.

Either of the parts.

